SWA wants to fly from HOU to MEX and SouthAmerica

[humveedriver]

PCL 128 and I are barely SWA pilots by proxy! Not a whole lot given to us at the Tran. I think United needs to focus on their product. With all the investing they have done at IAH, they should have no problem turning a profit. Best of luck to you and your merger.

 

[waveflyer]

Flop- please source this agreement-
Houston is in america and democratic governments have a say over airports and international ops- that doesn't mean there is a current restriction against it- there are no facilities for it, so Swa has asked the city to conduct them and will pay to set up facilities- united wants the city to not allow them to.
I've seen no evidence of an agreement of any kind, much less one "with teeth"-
Protectionist united-

 

[Flopgut]

I can't stop laughing at that one. 1.5 billion??? Really? Are you guys packing up and leaving?

We just broke ground on a 700 million dollar investment in this airport.... Do you not think we might have liked to have known the city was considering this?!

Would you want to build that building down at Hobby and then have the city council tell you it's cancelled and it's going to be made a hot dog stand?

 

[Flopgut]

Flop- please source this agreement-
Houston is in america and democratic governments have a say over airports and international ops- that doesn't mean there is a current restriction against it- there are no facilities for it, so Swa has asked the city to conduct them and will pay to set up facilities- united wants the city to not allow them to.
I've seen no evidence of an agreement of any kind, much less one "with teeth"-
Protectionist united-

Well, there is you (guy on the internet) and then there is Gordon Bethune, who is speaking to actual agreements made with Mayors Lanier and Brown about excatly what was to go on at IAH and the HAS.

The links I put up are so grossly SWA biased I thought (wrongly) most of you guys would shirk from them. Nope. The SWA ego knows no bounds...

 

[Bake]

We just broke ground on a 700 million dollar investment in this airport.... Do you not think we might have liked to have known the city was considering this?!

Would you want to build that building down at Hobby and then have the city council tell you it's cancelled and it's going to be made a hot dog stand?

Who cancelled your building? If we enter the international market you guys become hot dog sellers? Are you suggesting that if SWA flies 35 flights a day to mexico etc, that you guys will be out of business? Wow, we are better than I thought. SWA IS FLYING TO CANCUN, UNITED FOLDING UP TENT!!!!. I don't think so.

 

[PCL_128]

Well, there is you (guy on the internet) and then there is Gordon Bethune, who is speaking to actual agreements made with Mayors Lanier and Brown about excatly what was to go on at IAH and the HAS.

Where are these agreements? Because if they aren't in writing, then they're nothing but sleazy back room politics, and I have no respect for that. I certainly hope Mr. Bethune wasn't engaging in that sort of behavior.

 

[Flopgut]

Who cancelled your building? If we enter the international market you guys become hot dog sellers? Are you suggesting that if SWA flies 35 flights a day to mexico etc, that you guys will be out of business? Wow, we are better than I thought. SWA IS FLYING TO CANCUN, UNITED FOLDING UP TENT!!!!. I don't think so.

Yeah, I am. The margins are that close.

When one airline has to spend over a billion, and the other spends less than 10% of that, yeah... that is the difference.

 

[PCL_128]

Bethune is a more respected airline guy than Gary Kelly is

Really? And where did you pull that "fact" from? I would think that the CEO of the most successful airline in the country would command quite a bit of respect.

 

[Double Shot]

You know Flop,

If it was Greg Brenamam (sp) making the claim then I would listen. When I was at CAL and thank God I'm not anymore we all new that Brenaman was the brains of the Continental turn around and Gordon was just the mouth.
Gordon is a Herb want to be and he ain't no Herb! What a joke

 

[Bake]

Well, OK then. I'm willing to bet you some cash that isn't the case. Are you a taker? I'm talking big money (for a pilot). We can PM the amounts so the IRS doesn't get interested.